{"id":15420,"date":"2015-07-29T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=15420"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:58:37","slug":"climate-change-urgent-and-growing-threat-to-national-security-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/climate-change-urgent-and-growing-threat-to-national-security-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change &#8216;urgent and growing threat&#8217; to national security: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"repubhubembed\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">A new Pentagon report says that climate change is an &#8220;urgent and growing threat to our national security&#8221; and blames it for &#8220;increased natural disasters&#8221; that will require more American troops designated to combat bad weather. Some studies have questioned whether such a trend exists. Says the Pentagon report released Wednesday, &#8220;Global climate change will have&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style>.rhexcerpt{display:none;}<\/style>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/view.act?fuid=MjAwODM1MTc=&#038;showDate=true\" height=\"1500\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border:0;overflow-x:hidden;background:transparent;\" allowtransparency=\"yes\" scrolling=\"no\" data-size=\"3123\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/d2uzdrx7k4koxz.cloudfront.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE, change \"showDate=true\" to \"false\" --><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pentagon report says that climate change is an &#8220;urgent and growing threat to our national security&#8221; and blames it for &#8220;increased natural disasters&#8221; that will require more American troops designated to combat bad weather. Some studies have questioned whether such a trend exists. Says the Pentagon report released Wednesday, &#8220;Global climate change will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/climate-change-urgent-and-growing-threat-to-national-security-pentagon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate change &#8216;urgent and growing threat&#8217; to national security: Pentagon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15421,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15420\/revisions\/15421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}